Wednesday, June 27, 2007

iPhone can cook and clean for you

Since the official reviews came out 24 hours ago, I can barely keep up with my feeds as they've been inundated with all kinds of iPhone related news, stories and cripes.

Wow, people expect a lot from this little gadget, huh? But then again, these people *are* dishing $600 (or as some sites have calculated it, it comes out to a few grands with the phone plan). Here are a few I can remember from reading all the blog.
  • "Can we have USB port connector so pictures can be printed from it?"

  • "Camera doesn't zoom?"

  • "Only SMS (text), cannot do multimedia messaging service (MMS)" translation: can't send pictures that you take with the camera to an email

  • "No build in GPS" translation: iPhone doesn't know where you are. Bu not to worry, with an iPhone in your hand, anyone would give you direction.

  • "Can't pick a song to use as my ringtone?"
    Dood! as if most ringtones are annoy enough... except for mine, hee hee.

  • "Can't replace the battery"
    You can't do that on the iPod either and it sold like hot cakes and still do.

  • "AT&T EDGE network is too slow"
    OK, this one I kinda agree, but most of us are somewhere around wi-fi anyway.

  • "Two years commitment?"
    Don't we all have to anyway today?

  • "No Java & Flash support?" translation: can't watch many videos (besides YouTube) or play majority games on the web
    OK, another one I kinda agree.

  • "No real SDK?" translation: mmm.... nah, I'm not even gonna try, if you don't know this TLA, it probably won't affect you anyway.
    Yeah, agree again.
I think there are probably 100 more things Apple could've put into the iPhone, but then again, simplicity sometime trumps features.

As Henry Ford famously said... "If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse."

2 comments:

Brian said...

I actually read about the 2-year contract.

Almost all mobile phone prices are subsidized with 2-year contract, which means that you only pay fraction of the actual retail price when you sign the dotted line. However, AT&T requires you to sign a 2-year contract AND pay $499 or $599.

I guess I'll stick with mine for little longer.

thomashan said...

@brian - yeah, that is the most common argument now. but... do you get an iPod with your phone?

Nope! that is why you are not cool like us, the iPhone owners, muhhahaa